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“There are three things a man must do alone: be born, die and testify.”

— James Walker

“We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

— Tennessee Williams

“I was never less alone than when by myself.”

— Edward Gibbon

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

— Winston Churchill

“Alone, alone, oh! We have been warned about solitary vices. Have solitary pleasures ever been adequately praised? Do many people know that they exist?”

— Jessamyn West